WebExtension

[s8321414]

Any chance to port this addon to WebExtension API?

[slosd]

Unfortunately it looks like the necessary APIs won't be ready when support for XUL extensions is dropped. Even worse, it's very unlikely that the APIs will ever be available [1, 2]. For a while there was an idea floating around which would have given extensions access to Firefox internals but that didn't go anywhere [3].

[1] https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/setting-browser-preferences-when-using-webextensions-api/8561
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215062
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215306

[s8321414]

Ah... sad to hear this...

[s8321414]

seems we have browser.Settings() API now

[slosd]

That API is limited to a handful of settings. It's not sufficient to be able to port the add-on.